Chocolate Cinnamon Cake with Banana Sauce

By littlefish

Ingredients

• 1 oz plain chocolate, chop into small pieces
• 1/2 c unsalted butter, room temp.
• 1 T instant coffee powder
• 5 eggs separated
• 1 c sugar
• 1 c flour
• 2 t ground cinnamon
• Sauce
• 4 ripe bananas
• 3 T fresh lemon juice
• 3/4 c whipping cream
• 1 T rum (opt.)

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven 350*. Grease 8" round cake tin. Combine chocolate & butter in top of double boiler. Stir until melted. Remove from heat and stir in coffee. Set aside. Beat egg yolks with granulated sugar and thick and lemon-colored. Add chocolate mixture and beat on low speed until just blended. Stir the flour and cinnamon together in bowl. In another bowl beat egg whites til stiff peacks. Fold a dollop whites into chocolat emix to lighten. fold in remaning whites in 3 batches alternating with the sifted flour mixture. Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake 40-50 min or toothpick clean. Turn cake out on wire rack. Preheat grill for sauce. Slice bananas into shallow flameproof dish. Stir in brown sugar & lemon. Place until grill 8 min, stir occasionally, unttil carmelized. Mash mixture until almost smooth. tip into bowl and stir in cream and rum. Serve beside slice of cake.